Christmas morning!
From the Morton Arboretum‘s “Illumination” festival, taken in early December.
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Christmas morning!
From the Morton Arboretum‘s “Illumination” festival, taken in early December.
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I thought the format of the title would give it away, but this is from Liminal Owl. There will be one more seasonal/holiday OTR tomorrow.
Not labeled, but I think it’s Christmas 1964, when I was four. Possibly 1963.
My family was Jewish, but so far removed from religious identity that we always had a tree and sang carols—the very, very traditional and religious English ones: Silent Night, and O Come All Ye Faithful, and (my favorite) We Three Kings. My parents played a record, The First Christmas in Carols, and some of those I’ve never heard elsewhere.
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JanieM and cope and HinTN and evap Christmas pics, so far!
More great photos from cope!
This is a Christmas picture from 1965 in our Illinois home. It is rare in that all 5 of us kids are (mostly) in one shot. What I’m holding looks like some sort of tape recorder/player but I have no memory of it. Ironically, looking at the holes in my socks, the white socks on the floor were the present I opened just before this one.
In 1970, my family moved to Colorado where my brothers and sisters and their families have been ever since. I moved our family to Florida from Colorado in 1989 but this month, my wife and I are moving back to Colorado where the five of us “kids” will all be back together again.
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From the yearly pilgrimages to the Lights
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Two pictures from when I was two years old. The back of the crying picture says “he didn’t like his horse but now he rides it all the time. Two pictures from the Christmas I was 16 years old. Dig those side burns!
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This morning we have a set of great Christmas pics from cope! (Thought I had better belatedly clarify since apparently “cope” doesn’t necessarily jump out as a nym!)
My stepdad took lots and lots of pictures when we were growing up. He only took slides, though, so after a single viewing, they pretty much disappeared into a closet. Over the past couple of years, I took it upon myself to scan all his slides and turn them into digital slideshows complete with opening and closing credits and accompanying songs of the period. Some of the slides were, after more than fifty years, in sad shape and my scanning and editing software could only do so much but there you go.
This is my cohort, my brothers and sisters in arms. I am the oldest. As I keep blathering about, my wife and I are moving back to Colorado after thirty three years in Florida. The five of us will all be living within fifteen minutes of each other. That small rocking chair is already packed up, ready to go.
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Hey you *slackers :-) where are your holiday pics? Holidays when you were little, Christmas lights, decorations?
* cope, jeffery, SkyBluePink, one more mystery person and the person who lost all their childhood pictures in a fire … not included in the (pretend) name calling.
In July of 2022, my grandson and I flew out to visit my family in Grand Junction, Colorado. Born and raised in Florida, he had never been out West. At the time, his family was preparing to sell their Florida home and move to Vermont, a task they completed this past November. During this visit, I decided that my wife and I should sell our Florida home too, and move back to Colorado after 33 years of Florida life.
I tried to make sure we did something different every day so my grandson could share some fun memories with his grandpa. I think that mission was accomplished.
To save money, our flights there and back were at odd hours and each involved a lengthy layover in Denver. This is the dawn view as we left Orlando in a drizzle.
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